CAST 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Norval Morrisseau, Northwest Passage

• School: BGSU
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CAST 2010
• Professor: Mancuso Rebecca

Document Summary

Go to fort bags and go on tour, staple ticket to 1 page response about it for extra credit. Or watch a canadian movie and write a one page response. Systems, economy and culture of racism has carried over through time. We aren"t going to change it all at once but it"s important to understand. In canada, native peoples are not seen as yesterday"s people"s". They are a very large minority and are quite powerful. They have territories where natives run and work closely with their own government. They had no iron, wheels, or firearms. They had territories but no sense of land ownership. Algonquians-nomadic peoples of eastern and central canada (ojibway, cree, blackfoot) Iroquoians- great lakes regions (more sedentary, relied on agriculture trade. Highly developed politically) this included mohawk, oneida, onondaga, cayuga, seneca. Nomadic peoples of the arctic and subarctic. Pacific- present day british columbia, village dwellers, relied on fishing. Believe that things in nature have spirits.